Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14

Two tramps were crushed to death at
st. Thomas, Ont, recently, owing to freight
cars jumping the track.
THE Portuguese Ministry has proposed to
Parliament that the buildings on the right
bank Of the Tagus be declared a free port,
and that stores for shipping, landing and
bonding all goods not destined for home
consumption be exempt from all fiscal
charges.
THE British ship Muskota, it is feared,
has been lost at sea with all on board. She
left Sorabia, Java, December Is. and called
at Hanjoeuanjie on New Years day. Her
destination was Queenstown. The crew
belonged principally to New York.
DURING drill of sappers at Jasz-Bereny,
the capital OF Zazyga, Hungary, recently a
dynamite cartridge exploded prematurely;
killing twenty-seven men and injuring
forty eight others. OF the killed four were
officers.
A B. DRURY & Co., jewellers, Montreal,
have assigned. Liabilities heavy.
A TERRIBLE explosion of naphtha took
place the other day in drug store at Ant
werp. Ten persons were buried beneath
the burning ruins and three were rescued
badly injured.
M. NICoLAIEFF, Bulgarian Minister ofWar.
in a speech to the officers of the army, asked
them to absolutely abstain from mixing in
politics and to give their whole attention to
the army. He said he was happy to be able
to declare that the training and discipline
of the Bulgarian army was better now than
it had ever been while under the supervis-
Ion of Russian Instructors.
THE North German Gazette, referring to the
French Foreigners Tax bill, says the mo-
ment seems to have arrived for Germany to
consider whether all the nti-German meas
ures which are being carried out in France
should not, in a fully reciprocal manner, be
enforced in Germany, especially IN Alsace-
Lorraine.
II is said that the Dominion Government
has entrusted to Sir Frederick Middleton
the task of reorganizing the militia of Can
ada, in order to place it upon an efficient
footing. When carried out the scheme will
nearly double the force.
GENERAL LAMoUR, charged with attempt
ing to murder President Solomon, of Hayti,
has been sentenced to Imprisonment for life
at hard labor.
JAMES g. BLAINE was entertained at sup
per in London the other evening by Henry
Irving, the actor. He was to start on a
short tour through Scotland and ireland.
THE Thistle again defeated the Irex in a
regatta off Scotland.
THE Pope has decided to unite the do
ceses of Wichita and Concordia with that
of Leavenworth, Kan, and the diocese of
ID.
THE new Austro-Hungarian turret ship
Kron Prinz Rudolph was launched on the
9th at Pola on the Adriatic in the presence
of the Emperor and the Archduchess Marie
Theresa. The latter chriStened the vessel
AN immense fire ragged in Quebec on the
night of the 9th, breaking out in the bar
racks and threatening the arsenal and cita-
del.
A PORTION of the land bordering on the
lake at Zug, the capital of the canton of
that name in Switzerland, went into the
lake on the 9th with half of the new quays.
Forty houses, a crowded inn and the Hotel
Zurich, a four story structure, full of Wis.,
itors, vanished entirely. One hundred per-
sons persisted.
A RECENT dispatch from st. Thomas,
West Indies, says: Peter Barlow, who took
part in the American revolution, under
General Washington, has died in Demarara,
aged one hundred and thirty years.
ADvICEs from China state that a rebellion
took place recently at Chang Chow, near
Shanghai, but was suppressed by the au-
thorities and ninety of the conspirators ex-
ecuted.
THE imports in Great Britain in June
were g, 550,0O0 less in value than in June.
1856, while the exports decreased 81, 220, 600
for the same time.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, has been elected Prince of Bulgaria
by the Sobranje. If the Powers refuse to
recognize his election the Sobranje intends
to abrogate the article of the Berlin treaty
and proclaim the independence of the coun-
try.
A DISPATCH from Madrid says the COM
mercial treaty between the United States
and Spain will be prolonged by the Spanish
Government at the end of the present year.